February 27 - July 7, 2024
The second iteration of Boundless roots itself in the shared aesthetics, intellectual, and spiritual traditions that connect Indigenous peoples from across the globe.
Jan 26 - May 5, 2024
Trópico es Político: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime is a group exhibition that considers notions of natural and fiscal paradise through the work of artists living in the Caribbean and its diaspora.
Jan 26 - June 23*, 2024
Like a Slow Walk with Trees is a meditation on land and labor by Alicia Grullón. The body, the banner, photography, and video with text are employed as part of her artistic practice, which centers activism. *Closed May 3-24
The seventh iteration of the annual festival celebrating the creative accomplishments of student artists. On view February 27th to July 7th, 2024.
The Rotherwas Room, (built England, 1611) is always on view at the Mead, and open as a study spot, an area for classes visiting the museum to convene, and available to community partners upon request.
Contact MeadEdu@amherst.edu for more information.
May 24 - October 13, 2024
This exhibition showcases the work of three leading modern artists from Ukraine who produced work during an astonishing period of the country’s cultural renaissance in the early twentieth century.
Boundless is a nearly museum-wide exhibition that features work by Native American writers and artists, grounded in but not contained to the Northeast. On view August 29, 2023-January 7, 2024.
This exhibition features objects from antiquity to the 21st century that examine what it means to be in ruin, as a material state and theoretical concept, each with ethical and political dimensions. On view January 31–June 25, 2023.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres left flexible guidelines for the installation of his candy works. While at the Mead, “Untitled” (Blue Placebo) will change locations and take new shape. On view January 31–July 9, 2023.
This group exhibition is a special iteration of God Made My Face, organized by Hilton Als. On view February 24–July 9, 2023.
The Sixth Annual Black Art Matters Festival is a student-led celebration highlighting Amherst's Black students' work and artistic achievement. On view from March 7 – June 25, 2023.
This exhibition foregrounds Argentinian-born, U.S.-based artist Liliana Porter’s decades-long consideration of “two realities”— “virtual reality” (a depiction of a thing) and the “real thing.”
The exhibition is curated by DeLyna Hadgu, a senior and Advanced Student Museum Educator at Amherst College in collaboration with the Black Art Matters Festival. The show explores how Black artists represent Black subjects.
Presenting artworks produced in the United States between 1800 and today that offer opportunities to consider the role of art in creating, reinforcing, and challenging stories about national identity. On view through July 18, 2021.
Join students in a conversation on food, culture, art, and power, culminating in an exhibition at the Mead Art Museum.
To learn about previous Mead exhibitions, visit the Exhibition Archive.